Since many of the problems societies face today are complex and, by origin, are scientific
(eg, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, etc.), scientific evidence is imperative in many …

Framing—selecting certain aspects of a given issue and making them more salient in
communication in order to “frame” the issue in a specific way—is a key concept in the study …

Scientific issues requiring urgent societal actions—such as climate change—have increased
the need for communication and interaction between scientists and other societal actors …

The function of science in society is the creation of special knowledge with a specific
scientific methodology. Knowledge produced in this way is used in various forms: to build …

Based on a communication-centered approach, this article examines how researchers
approach societal impact, that is, what they think about societal impact in research …

Nowadays, the prevailing trend in the science-society relationship is to engage with the
broader public, which is beneficial for the public, scientific institutes, scientific findings, and …

The mental models that individual scholars have of science communication–how it works,
what it is supposed to achieve and so on–shape the way these academics actually …

The article aims to understand the process through which scientific experts gain and
maintain remarkable media visibility. It has been analysed a corpus of 213,875 articles …

Scientific knowledge is intrinsically uncertain; hence, it can only provide a tentative
orientation for political decisions. One illustrative example is the discussion that has taken …

The coronavirus pandemic created a situation in which virological and epidemiological
science became highly politically relevant but was uncertain and fragmented. This raises the …